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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
Either
Ego
Least
Terror
High
Supreme
Born
Anxiety
Handing
Strong
Confidence
Admitted
Work
Unless
Gifted
Every
Writer
Fairly
Cases
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